The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 108
Accordingly next morning early Noureddin went to seek his ten friends, who all lived in the same street.
Who acts: Noureddin, ten friends · What happens: go, seek, live · To what, where: ten friends, same street
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin, ten friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | Noureddin | Noureddin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seek | mark |
| 8 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 friends | nummod |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seek | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 lived | advmod |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 friends | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 street | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 street | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 street | amod |
| 19 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Noureddin | morning | accordingly, early property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | Noureddin not said here | One's ten friends | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | past | One's ten friends | the same street | all property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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